Melanie McFarland has her finger on the pulse of the television remote. The networks, the premium channels, the great shows you love and the asinine shows the rest of America watches … she knows what's on. If you have a question, e-mail her at tvgal@seattlepi.com.

Fall TV poll: What are you watching?

Since we’re almost out of the fall premiere woods, I figured now as good a time as any to do an informal Blog of Lowered Expectations poll and see what shows are moving your meter.

This assists me in two ways: One, it’ll help me figure out where I should focus my general coverage. There’s no reason to explore the wider cultural significance of, say, “Deal or No Deal” if the three of you don’t care or really don’t care.

Not that I would ever consider doing that.

And two, your input will tell me what’ll spark conversation on this blog. For example, now that I have returned from family duties I intend to jumpstart the weekly “Heroes” posts, which are always good discussion starters.

I have other breakdown candidates, but before I commit I’d like to find out what you like talking about so, please — help me help you. Weigh in below, in the comments section.

On a side note, many of you have sent me e-mails wondering what happened to this year’s “all-out, no-holds-barred, new season updates,” as a lovely person I’ll call Unregistered User #55520 put it in a previous post’s comment section.

The answer, dear Unregistered User #55520, is that our newspaper is in a transitional period. We’re trying to figure out what works best for readers and what doesn’t. Plus, we simply didn’t have the resources to devote an entire week of newspapers to TV reviews.

While nobody knows what the future holds, I suspect that next year our fall TV preview coverage will return to its former glory, and in all likelihood will be a better organized and mostly online venture.

As always, I appreciate the fact that you, magnificent and totally studly #55520, as well as all you other handsome, noble readers of this here blog, stuck with me even though the Big Brawlin’ review extravanganza did not appear this year.

You all complete me. I am weeping a little tear just thinking about the devotion of all of you sexy, sexy people.